Orange County Biographies

JACOB MAGGARD

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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JACOB MAGGARD, residing near Anaheim, was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, 
August 12, 1815. His parents, Jacob and Susan (Bright) Maggard, natives of 
Virginia and Tennessee, had ten children, he being the fifth. At the age of 
twenty years he started out in life for himself by working by the day in 
Scotland County, Missouri, wither his father had moved fifteen years previously. 
He was reared principally in Randolph County, Missouri. He continued in his 
calling as a farmer, in which he was successful, until about twelve years ago, 
when he came to California and purchased property in Sonoma County. More 
recently he purchased his present residence, where he will spend the evening of 
his life. He and his wife have long been earnest workers in the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church, and are exemplary in their conduct as Christians. 

Mr. Maggard was married in Missouri, February 11, 1841, to Elizabeth Myers, a 
native of that State, and a daughter of Henry and Catharine Myers. Theirs was 
the first recoded marriage in Scotland County. They have five children: Irvine 
J., M. D., of Oxford, Kansas; James A., M. D, of Denver Colorado; William F., M. 
D., of Corning, California; Emma, wife of Sidney Holman; and Sarah Frances, 
deceased.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. Page 858-859